Burrishoole weather records: The diaries of John Oram contain a unique record of the weather conditions at Burrishoole from January 1854 to September 1873 and April 1877 to September 1881. Martin Rowley, a retired member of The Met Office has extracted all the relevant information from John Oram’s diaries and published a very interesting paper available on Martin’s West Moors Miscellany website

In November 1854, about eighteen months after arriving in Ireland John was sent a ‘Rockite Letter’. Image of the Reward poster.

From about 1857 John was an inspector of fisheries and an elected member of the Board of Conservators of Fisheries, Bangor District, attending meetings in Ballycroy and Newport. John’s contribution was acknowledged in an exhibit at the now closed visitor’s centre at the Marine Institute’s facilities between Lough Feeagh and Lough Furnace.

“Tenants’ manifesto – the attempt on Mr Oram’s life” October 1872, a newspaper cutting from the Ballina Herald found in the back of John’s father-in-law’s bible. On 1 October 1872 John had visited Aughness to collect rents and then dined and stayed the night at Lagduff House. The next day he paid the waterkeepers before returning home. He was shot at a mile beyond Dooghill, as he was approaching Mallaranny.